Indent in simple mode

1

Hi! I’m trying to implement a mode using the mode/simple addon and I’m not being able to make auto-indentation work specifically when opening parentheses (square brackets and braces work perfectly). I tried just copying the “simplemode” from the demo and still the same. I guessed that maybe one of the addons was causing the problem and found that enabling autoCloseBrackets made it show up:

// works: 
this.editor = CodeMirror( this.$refs.editor as HTMLElement, {
    value: "foobar",
    mode: "simplemode"
}

// doesn't work: 
this.editor = CodeMirror( this.$refs.editor as HTMLElement, {
    value: "foobar",
    mode: "simplemode",
    autoCloseBrackets: true
}

Any idea how to solve this? :thinking:

2

What you’re seeing is that the mode will align a line starting with a closing parentheses with the statement that opened the parens, and with autoclosebrackets on, you’ll have a closing parentheses after your cursor if you press ‘(’ and then enter. Indentation between parens still works as normal, if you put actual code between them and then reindent.

3

Thanks for the explanation Marjin! I was just gonna write for future reference that I took the fact that pressing enter after "[" or "{" added a new indented line but after "(" it didn’t as “indentation is not working”, when actually I was simply not setting the explode option of autoCloseBrackets properly (that by default is set just for "[]{}")